Vehicles damage cemetery during Trump rally

[questionseverything]

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/vehicles-damage-cemetery-during-trump-rally/article_e41d25f0-2814-546a-a8a8-da0cbe498568.html

BLOOMINGTON — People going to the Donald Trump rally on Sunday drove over graves and headstones and tore up turf when parking in East Lawn Memorial Gardens, according to residents with loved ones buried there.

The Republican presidential front-runner flew in for a rally at the Synergy Flight Center, which is across Empire Street from the cemetery. More than 3,000 Trump supporters and hundreds of protesters attended the event.

Charlotte Twyford of Downs said she has two relatives buried in the cemetery, and she is worried that damage may have been done to their graves after seeing several Facebook pictures of the scene and talking with cemetery officials and other families.

“Headstones were broken out there,” Twyford said. “Throughout the day, we kept seeing and hearing reports from the cemetery, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. It just shows that some people had a total disrespect for the graves and they need to be prosecuted.”
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apparently even the dead are not safe from trump supporters

the worst part is the graves nearest the airport are the baby graves

[CincyDem]

1. Why is this not surprising. WTF are these guys thinking. n/t

[questionseverything]

3. i do want to defend my hometown and say

this kind of stuff does not usually fly here

i saw several folks interviewed after the trump rally and no one said they were a supporter...instead it was , we don't usually get candidates here so we just went to check it out

people driving over babies' graves shocked me

[CincyDem]

6. Not slamming any hometowns :-)

Rally like this probably draw a lot of folks from out of the area. We just had him here in the Cincinnati area and a friend who was up there (for chits and giggles) said there were a lot of Indiana/Kentucky/West Virginia plates in the lot. I'm sure the damage was done by folks who said "hell...I'm never gonna be here again so who gives a chit". Classic Trump logic.

There was a pic on here somewhere comparing the trash post rally...Trump vs. Sanders. Trump was littered all over the ground. Sanders was all piled up in a trash can with the cardboard boxes broken down. lol.

Anyway - I'm sure there are a lot of neighborhoods that are much better than their Trumpster visitors.

[questionseverything]

9. i love hearing bernie supporters are respectful even when it comes to trash...lol

years ago we had a pontoon boat...went out all the time

our favorite little cove to beach at was always covered with trash when we got there...my kids knew first thing we were gonna pick up the trash

as adults now when they are out camping or boating, they do the same

makes me proud

[greymouse]

2. Geez, that's horrid.

[questionseverything]

11. i hope i am wrong about the baby graves because that must be awful for the parents

bad enough to have an elders grave disrespected

my own folks are buried there...i have not had the heart to check their headstones yet

[greymouse]

17. I volunteer at a historic cemetery

There the baby graves are with the family's. I don't know why they would be separate.

Some people have standing headstones, some have the flat in the ground ones. That doesn't imply anything about the age in the one I know about. I suspect it's more expense or cemetery rules. Some cemeteries like flat stones because the grass maintenance is easier.

I hope your folks headstones are okay. Fortunately there is now info about how to repair damaged headstones, thanks to vandals damaging them.

[questionseverything]

18. i know for a fact that this cemetery has a baby section (sw corner)

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right across rt 9 from the airport trump did the rally at

i have attended funerals there for newborns

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Just awful!

[NCjack]

5. Pres. Obama and his disastrous policies made the rally necessary. /nt/s/

[Lochloosa]

7. I assume the /s was meant to be the sarcasm tag?

[NCjack]

8. yes, /s/ = sarcasm. I gave up on getting that nice sarcasm

tag you have to work. Where did you get?

[Lochloosa]

10. When you reply hit smilies. At the bottom right are three little ...

Push that button and up pops the hidden smiles. Took me a little while to figure it out.

[NCjack]

14. Thanks -- next time you will see

[Contrary1]

12. Like this:

: sarcasm : with no spaces between.

[NCjack]

15. Good -- thank you.

[Ferd Berfel]

13. The Brown Shirts are getting nasty

as they do.

[questionseverything]

16. even with trump supporters i hate to broadbrush all of them

i know a few locals that are leaning trump (because they are so frustrated with the economy)

this will wake them up i think

[Ferd Berfel]

19. The republicans I know personally

at work and socially, support him because he's open about his racism. A fe4w other things too but that's the main point

[questionseverything]

22. no doubt some of his supporters are racists

but i really think the main thing is he got a 2 month head start on the primaries when dws refused to start the dem debates

the ones i know say

he can't be bought
they hate the trade deals

[Ferd Berfel]

23. have to say that

I don't know a republican who is not a racist

Some are just more vocal about it then others

[retrowire]

20. mother of god thats atrocious. nt

[questionseverything]

21. my son in law was just saying

isn't that kind of the definition of evil?

it is going to make me find more bernie supporters and get them to the polls